Because I was stupid and bought an iPhone which means that is not possible.

AdGuard works on ios, so does 1blocker. They’re no uBlock, but they do the trick.

Do iPhones not have Firefox now?

Quoting _khhm who posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850091

> On iOS there are no web browsers other than Safari, per the app store rules. "Chrome" / "Firefox" / etc on iOS are just basically skins on top of Webkit.

> See 2.5.6 here - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> This is why you don't get any of the features / extensions / etc of Chrome or Firefox on iOS.

> per the app store rules

Jeez.

With iOS 17.4 they allow other rendering engines for users in the EU.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-chang...

FYI: the iOS Orion browser supports ublock origin

How is its addon support now though, in general? I stopped using it last year since it was pretty slow on iOS but more so because its addon support was very wonky.

uBO is fine for clearing up crud after you've accessed an article.

It's not useful for piercing paywalls / registration walls in the first place.

It's also not universally available, particularly on mobile devices and/or Google Chrome.

> It's also not universally available, particularly on mobile devices and/or Google Chrome.

FYI it is available on Firefox for Android.

Yep, and I use it there...

... though my preferred Android browser these days is Einkbro, optimised for an e-ink device as the name suggests, that being what I drive.

(Firefox on e-ink is ... beyond annoying.)

The browser itself has pretty good ad-blocking capabilities, but I'd rather much like to be able to block specific elements as well.

I would run headless chrome to fetch website and block all fetch requests from ublock origin list. This would give you a "remote" adblocker that works anywhere.

... but at that point just install pihole.

Or noscript browser plugin if you want to completely stop js

https://noscript.net/